7 Southern US Accents You WON'T Understand
7 Southern US Accents You WON'T Understand
🐊 If you’ve never been to the Southern US, you’re missing out on some fantastic accents! Never fear, I’ve gone to the trouble of finding these quirky American accents for you–from the mountains to the bayous, to the Deep South. But can you guess them quick enough? Let me know in the comments which Southern American accents you got, and…
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Us UK , Scotland, Ireland, long ago Cousins here in the God bless the South , say Ain't it hot , ya' ll , yah come sit on our porch.Wr are from New Orleans my ansters settled the South, some say we talk like we are from New York!
I’m from West Texas, with family from South, East and North Texas. I lived in East Texas and heard the Cajun accent, but learned in your video that Kentucky sounds similar because they share a French influence! I had no idea!
You are right about one thing North Carolina has a lot of dialects within the accents
Bless your heart
Oh please! Go to New York and visit the surrounding areas or New Jersey. You can’t understand them either.
getto is not an accent, its ignorance,
hell go tp Virginia, you will hear different accent in the same town,,,,lol
Eastern Kentucky sure has alot in common with West Virginia
Grew up in Missouri. Mother is Florida raised.
Missouri has several accents. Then there's St. Louis accent. So it just depends on where you grew up. I understood all of them.
Justin Wilson is not a Cajun, and his accent is inauthentic and fabricated. Fight me.
Yea I can spot a fake southern accent in movies. Some do it better than others but you can still pick it out. Usually it's exaggerated or forced
I have lived in SC for 40 years now but I grew up in Southern California.
People still say to me "You're not from around here, are you?".
Check your facts….Popcorn Sutton was NOT from Tennessee…..he was from Maggie Valley, NC.
Tayters ❤
soon as i heard that ole feller talkin while he's fishin i knew it was Kentucky. we do have a weird way of speaking here, apparently, to the rest of the US but i absolutely love it! i love the land, it's absolutely beautiful. the people are almost all a real good type of people, they'd help you, give you the shirt of their back. they just want to be left alone and be able to keep what's theirs and live in peace, for the most part. Appalachia's a great place to live though, i love it so much. by the way, we definitely have hollers here in KY too. the Eastern portion at least, when you get into the real mountains. the central part is more the foothills, very hilly land. the western portion flattens out a bit, but there's still hills around and there's tons of forests. the accent's nice, i think. and it's got such a cool history, some of it is kinda dark though with coal and the riots and violence. but the Scots Irish influence is very strong here, you see we play the fiddle, we love making our whiskey, bourbon and moonshine, we have a general tough spirit … overall, it's a spectacular place to live. 10/10, would recommend to anyone who wants to live a rural life, and is willing to adhere to Appalachian principles wherever possible
I hate being southern
They are all descended from South and West England speech. I don't see how anybody could not realise this. The "Scots/Irish" flavour of some of the speakers is, I suspect, due to English West Country people being encouraged to migrate to Northern Ireland in the 17th century and mixing with Scots at the same time.
What about Arkansaw? East Teaxas?
I have a hard time understanding ppl with strong southern accents—especially if they’re talking very fast.
Thank God I speak the Kings English!!
As a Southern woman born and raised I love our accents.
Go to Charleston, South Carolina or coastal North Carolina. Probably the most connected version of America language to England. Another neat version is from the Geechie-Gullah.
I was born and raised in Tennessee for my 67 years of my life. People say I love your Southern accent but we don’t have a Southern accent we have a Country drawl. A Southern accent is the way Scarlet O’Hara from Gone With the Wind sounded like.
I didn't care for any of the accents, just sayin
I think a large part of the percieved variation between some of the old people speaking could be attributed to many years of smoking and maybe some missing teeth that distort their voice
its interesting how brits think the most interesting part of the U.S. is the south lol
Texas be like: "West Virginia is NOT part of the south".
I traveled through the south for a few months,the nicest people on earth. Sweet tea and gravy on everything 😁
Couldn't understand a word anyone said but had the best time ever.
I'm not a Cajun, and I know that Justin Wilson, one of the examples given of someone with a Cajun accent, was also not a Cajun. He's been criticized by Cajuns for his comic impression of a Cajun accent. D.L. Menard, on the other hand, who is shown singing a song in Cajun French about his daughter Rebecca Ann and then speaking in English with a Cajun accent, is definitely the real thing.
Ap-pah-la-chen LA as in last, cat, bat, mat. Excuse me? Did I miss South Carolina or did you?
I could never understand how Michael Jackson was from Gary, Indiana, but at times has this very Deep South accent. Then I found out apparently there was a lot of folk moved from the Deep South to Indiana wayyyy back and the accent stuck. Especially on his mother’s side. Sometimes he speaks very proper and then at times, especially when he’s laughing or excited about something he’s pure Deep South with a soft drawl. It’s a very attractive sound.Very cool. Or as MJ would say “very coo. From when I went to scoo”
Every one HATES a southern accent. I dropped my YouTube channel after I went viral because the REST of the United States lost their whole poo over my South Carolina accent. I got so sick of hearing that I was faking it or copying black folks – whom just sound the same here as everyone here. This IS how we talk. I hate it here.
As a Georgian, can confirm that the accent is more of a draw. My mother in law is Mexican and sometimes has a hard time when I say things bc the words all kind of draw together 😂
Alabama guy here. I am an engineer. For my job i have to talk to people from around the country . I have had people tell me that they could listen to me talk about nothing all day long. lol And have had MANY women say its a sexy accent. lol
I live in Loozianner and just nau learnt there's differnt Kajun acksents. lol
The borders of the states in my opinion have the most interesting. Beautiful blends of all these "accents". I'm from the south. Born in NC, and lived many different states. Currently in Kentucky right on the Virginia line.
You only covered the most lowbrow hillbilly accents but there are several very beautiful “Southern Gentleman’s” accents as well. It is interesting how much influence the Irish and Scots had on the Deep South as you pointed out. If you listen to the old country Irish music, there are a lot of similarities with the Southern American variety. There are some southern expressions which date back to old English. My favorite is the use of “right” to mean “very” as in “that’s right nice of you”. This usage is prevelant in England and the Commonwealth mostly in titles such as The Right Reverend or The Right Honorable.
12:02 Is that the My Pillow Guy?
I'm from Texas but not the country part and we talked normal but I went to southeast Arkansas and I went into the grocery store and the checker girl was like 18 or 19 best guess and I literally could not understand what she said. I was like I'm sorry and she repeated it and I was like omg people really talk like that? I thought it was stereotype. Don't get me wrong it was sexy as hell and she said where are you from? She knew instantly. I told her and long story short I moved there and swamp donkey is infringement rights that what everyone calls my 4×4 lifted suburban. Now accent is accent but a race talking like another race is not accent it's stupid
The southern accent is very comforting to me. My folks were from Arkansas and Oklahoma, we had friends in Alabama. I'm a Californian that had a southern accent every summer after visiting Grandma back yonder❣
I'm an American who speaks with a soft drawl, here are my honest to god guesses I made throughout the vid:
1.) Alabama 2.) Louisianna 3.) Tennessee 4.) Kentucky as fuck (I KNEW IT!) 5.) Mississippi 6.) Virginia 7.) North Carolina
Why is it a british dude doing these all the time 😂
You could not be more wrong about everything you said. Bless your heart.😅😅😅
My aunt married a cajun dude once. One Thanksgiving he cooked a deep-fried turkey, which I had never had or maybe even heard of before. It was good. I think he's in jail now.